Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the city was aflame , and bitter fighting had taken over the downtown suburbs . |
| 2 | In fact , my sheer busyness had squeezed out the close intimacy I had known with him during the first few months of the year after my operation . |
| 3 | It did not tell him how many French had crossed the frontier , nor whether blücher was concentrating his army ; all it told him was that a French force had pushed back the Prussian outposts . |
| 4 | The museum had taken over the northern end of the building but the main hall of what had been Damiani 's factory , with its vaulted roof and tunnels , was in semi-derelict condition , leased on occasion to a firm of Iranian-born Jews who dealt in Persian art . |
| 5 | The youngster had fallen down the steep embankment on the Colchester side of the station , injuring her back and legs , and was unable to move . |
| 6 | Every few blocks , a building or two had been gutted , walls standing , roofs collapsed , as if random artillery shelling had taken out the commercial heart of the city , leaving a few lucky businesses to struggle on until the next round . |
| 7 | Methodism had broken down the old geographical barriers so that now nearly all areas had their Nonconformists . |
| 8 | Stoddart quotes a great number of opinions on this subject : it seems that some authorities think that they may have been caused by a fall in sea level which meant that the reef flat became a barrier to water movement , so that surf became channelled down the outer edge of the algal ridge as it returned to the sea ; alternatively the spur and groove system may be the most effective form of baffle for dissipating wave energy and is caused by reef-building corals forming the spurs — the grooves , once formed , may of course be accentuated by scouring . |
| 9 | The last one 's meat had run out the previous day and if the new one 's meat was not salted within a day or two , there would be no pork or bacon for at least a month . |
| 10 | Or maybe a process of natural selection had winnowed out the overworked and discontented , the theoretical and jaded and left the few who were propelled back to the school by the same affection , curiosity and remembered enthusiasm that had drawn us . |
| 11 | This should do much to ease the burden the arms race had put on the Soviet economy . |
| 12 | This squad also exploded a store of mines which the Germans had not laid behind the beach — an extraordinary piece of dilatoriness for them , although they were probably complacent , in part at least , because their propaganda had written off the British . |
| 13 | Months of raw sewage had passed down the scarred pavement outside and a thin layer of grass — a bright , sickly , unreal green — had crept over the doorstep and into the building . |
| 14 | It was reported on Aug. 1 that the Albanian government had closed down the Albanian State Bank 's foreign exchange department after losses totalling $170,000,000 were disclosed in the department 's foreign exchange trading since 1988 . |
| 15 | The painting was a sponsored job — British Gas had put up the necessary . |
| 16 | Below the soft throb of the music , his increased sense of hearing had picked up the quiet click of the outer door to his private suite being closed . |
| 17 | The doctor had rolled up the dead woman 's sleeves to examine her arms . |
| 18 | It could n't have been anything else but Dad had put out the best wood the first time ; some of the rest was rotten . |
| 19 | Some twentieth-century vandal had ripped out the latticed windows of number seventeen . |
| 20 | By 1882 , Edison 's system of generating power in a central power station , changed industrial methods almost as much as steam had brought about the industrial revolution , and by 1885 the first internal combustion driven machine had appeared , to be followed in 1894 by the first recognisable motorcar . |
| 21 | Fluttering rags revealed where Ace 's and Johannsen 's blaster fire had cut down the black-robed enemy personnel . |
| 22 | The dungeon had taken on the squalid smell of the cave back in hell . |
| 23 | The weight his stepfather had put on the young man 's shoulders had made David seem much older than his twenty-eight years . |
| 24 | Patsy had cleaned the brasses specially , and Mother had tidied up the front garden . |
| 25 | Bream 's counsel , Mr Charles Tilling suggested in his closing speech that another person at the party had carried out the fatal knife attack . |